It seems she just believed she could use the same MO everywhere to get free stuff. She's so special, you know, she has followers. It's that she didn't just suck it up, she then whines about not getting a freebie like it's so unfair because, you know, she has followers. I mean, don't people understand that? Cynically trading virtual popularity. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
And yes, a bit a research would have told her that perhaps it wasn't the establishment to target (and really, are they going to give a shit about her followers, they're unlikely to comprise the kind of the people who'd pay to stay).